Career
She has also appeared in Balls of Steel and Star Stories. She performed in more than twenty arenas around the United Kingdom, and on Top Of The Pops, Civil Defense:United Kingdom, and SMTV numerous times. The band was contracted to Island Records and enjoyed four top 20 hits and released an album, with tracks that were featured in the movies Thunderpants and Scooby Doo.
Zucchi remains close friends with the other band members. career Zucchi appeared in Channel 4"s Balls of Steel.
Her role on the show is known as the Bunny Boiler. She would find a man in a public place with his partner, and outrageously flirt with him to antagonise his partner.
Her other television credits include The Information Technology Crowd, Massive Balls of Steel, Popworld, Hyperdrive, non-televised pilots Pear Shaped and New Dogs, and as a presenter for Nickelodeon and The Record of the Year. In 2006 and 2007, she had several roles in the Channel 4 comedy series Star Stories, including Courteney Cox, Sharon Osbourne, and also Geri Halliwell in Simon Cowell - My Honesty, My Genius.
In 2007, Zucchi entered the Big Brother United Kingdom house, pretending to be Pauline, a housemate from Australian Big Brother.
She was working secretly for Big Brother as a mole, going to and from the house to appear on Big Brother"s Little Brother. She presented Big Brother"s Big Mouth, another spin-off show from 17–20 July 2007, as part of the lineup replacing ex-"Big Mouth" presenter, Russell Brand. Zucchi also appears in a Department of Energy advertisement about the dangers of drunk driving.
She was seen on the Hula Hoops adverts (Captain! The intercom!) and United Kingdom adverts for Brunchettas.
Zucchi could once be seen with Des Lynam advertising Setanta Sports" coverage of Premier League football. This advertising stopped with Setanta Sports going into administration.
In 2007, Zucchi appeared in an episode of sitcom Not Going Out as lap-dancer Rosie. She appears in season 2 of Strutter on Music Television. She has presented a show on Virgin 1 called "Boob Envy" about how women see their breasts, during which she revealed she has "permanently erect nipples", and is also part of the presenting team of Sky One"s Brainiac and the cast of the second series of Touch Maine, I"m Karen Taylor for British Broadcasting Corporation Three.
In 2009, she played a small role in one episode of Skins and an episode of Law and Order: United Kingdom broadcast on Independent Television on 23 September 2010.
She is also in Richard Hammond"s Blast Laboratory and presents the "How Hard is Your Thing?" segment in Brainiac: Science Abuse. Most recently, she acted in several sketches in Charlie Brooker"s How television Ruined Your Life. She appears in British Broadcasting Corporation reality television series World Series of Dating as fictional host Poppy Weathers, which started airing on 26 March 2012.
In January 2013 she played Paquita Manganara in British Broadcasting Corporation One"s comedy series Blandings.
She appeared as Police Sergeant Randall in the Channel 4 show Shameless.